Thus starts the recovery

I picked up the laptop last night, and had a very unpleasant surprise. The laptop is indeed fixed, but to fix it, they ended up replacing the entire system. Everything we had is gone.
Before we took it in, we fortunately saved out all our personal documents, pictures, and other files, but everything else… gone.
I think [...]

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El ‘Puter

I got the call yesterday: the computer is fixed.
We haven’t picked it up yet since they called in the evening to tell us, but I’ll go get it tonight and test it out. Hopefully, all will be well.
We’ve been without the computer since basically Oct. 18, and over the last month I think we’ve learned [...]

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HP and the Never-ending Computer Problem

Last month, I wrote about how our computer had died. If you recall, I mentioned that the display cable was malfunctioning and that they needed to send our computer out to get it fixed. I also mentioned that for some reason that little problem was going to take several weeks to repair.
Last night, I got [...]

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Sometimes Daddies Do Stupid Things

It’s true. Sometimes daddies do indeed do stupid things. And I did one yesterday.
Our computer had what can only be described as a vindictive and vicious collapse last night. A horrible collapse. Each year, my wife and I host a Murder Mystery as part of our Halloween tradition. I always write the mysteries so that [...]

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MSTAR Metro

Courtney and I have used MSTAR as our internet provider since December. After a month of horror stories, we finally got everything working in spite of MSTAR’s repeated attempts at helping us (click here).
Over the last month, however, there have been four or five times when the internet and cable services have been down for [...]

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An Update—Wireless Router Problems

This morning, I replaced our old wireless router with a new model and, surprise surprise, had the exact same problems as before. So I called up MstarMetro and started working on it again.
The current theory is that the router was fine all along and that the cable going from the box to the router was [...]

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Wireless Router to the Rescue!

After a hiatus of nearly a year, we finally got internet at home again. We got it mostly as an incentive for our renters downstairs, but it is definitely a plus for us as well. On the recommendation of a friend, we chose to use Provo’s iProvo system and one of iProvo’s two available vendors—MstarMetro.
While [...]

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